MESSAGE FROM PETAIN
TO PEOPLE OF MADAGASCAR.
DETERMINATION TO REMAIN FRENCH.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 28.
According to a Vichy communique, French positions in Madagascar are being stubbornly defended and the British have launched several attacks 40 miles south of Antananarivo. The Vichy radio says Marshal Petain sent a message to the Madagascar people, through M. Annet saying: “Britain may. occupy Madagascar, but will not overcome the obstacle which holds out against machine-guns and cannon —your determined will to remain French.” - .
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420929.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
87MESSAGE FROM PETAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in